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Should I start Ricky Pearsall or Justin Jefferson in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 8:21 PM ET.

Start Justin Jefferson: he has been on the field this season, 67 percent of the snaps, and Ricky Pearsall has no snap on record yet. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Ricky Pearsall

WR · SF · bye 8

2025 vs catches line 4-5

Overall rank
271

Justin Jefferson

WR · MIN · on bye this week

2026 vs anytime td line 2-2

Market-based projection
17.1 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank
272

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ricky Pearsall, and the board ranks him 271st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justin Jefferson, and the board ranks him 272nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 4; 2QB: ADP 15.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Ricky Pearsall, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Justin Jefferson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 5

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Ricky Pearsall this season.

Through Week 5, Justin Jefferson has been on the field for 74 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 10 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against CHI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against TB he caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he carried 1 time for -11 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 79 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ricky Pearsall played 9 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing WR72.

He caught 36 of 53 targets for 528 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Justin Jefferson played 17 games and scored 201.5 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR21.

He caught 84 of 141 targets for 1048 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 8.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Justin Jefferson was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Justin Jefferson scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Ricky Pearsall 9.8, 2.0 a game between them.

Ricky Pearsall finished WR72 that year and Justin Jefferson WR21.

Justin Jefferson had 88 more targets than Ricky Pearsall, 141 to 53.

Justin Jefferson had 520 more receiving yards than Ricky Pearsall, 1048 to 528.

Byes and availability

Ricky Pearsall is off in Week 8 and Justin Jefferson in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Ricky Pearsall is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

Week 6 on the board

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